Delivered at North East New Tech, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 7th October 2011. See why people are choosing Ruby on Rails to develop web applications faster.

1. TITLE MVP ASAP PLZ!
High Speed Rails

2. ME Philip Poots
@pootsbook
Ruby Developer
Audacio.us
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3. MVP MVP?

4. MVP MVP?
Minimum Viable Product

5. MVP MVP?
Minimum Viable Product
Minimum Viable

6. LEAN Lean Startup

7. LEAN Lean Startup

8. LEAN The Lean Startup

9. LEAN Eric Ries

10. QUOTES Eric Ries
“Rails has done more for
startups than a whole boatload
of Venture Capitalists.”

11. QUOTES Eric Ries
“Rails has had an incredible
impact on the startup
ecosystem.”

12. QUOTES
Why?

13. QUOTES Tim O’Reilly
“Powerful web applications
that formerly might have
taken weeks or months to
develop can be produced in
a matter of days.”

14. QUOTES James Duncan Davidson
“Rails is the most well
thought-out web
development
framework I’ve ever
used. Nobody has
done it like this
before.”

15. QUOTES Evan Williams
“Rails stood out as the
best choice. We
consider it a key
business advantage.”

16. USAGE Twitter

17. USAGE Groupon

18. USAGE GitHub

19. USAGE Basecamp

20. USAGE Cabinet Office

21. USAGE FreeAgent

22. USAGE CustomerSure

23. USAGE SageOne

24. QUOTES Klaus-Michael Vogelberg
“Ruby on Rails…is
both revolutionary as
a language as well as
a framework.”
CTO

25. ABOUT Speed of Development
Code
Convention
Community

26. ABOUT Speed of Development
Code Ruby
Convention
Community

27. ABOUT Speed of Development
Code Ruby
Convention Rails
Community

28. ABOUT Speed of Development
Code Ruby
Convention Rails
Community RubyGems

29. RAILS Speed of Development
Convention Rails

30. RAILS RESTful Architecture
Database HTTP
Create POST
Read GET
Update PUT
Destroy DELETE

31. RAILS RESTful Actions
GET /invoices/1

32. RAILS XML
GET /invoices/1.xml

33. RAILS JSON
GET /invoices/1.json

34. RAILS PDF?
GET /invoices/1.pdf

35. RAILS PDF
, :pdf
GET /invoices/1.pdf

36. RAILS PDF
GET /invoices/1.pdf

37. ABOUT Speed of Development
Code Ruby
Convention Rails
Community RubyGems

38. GEMS Speed of Development
Community RubyGems

39. GEMS Payment Processing
ActiveMerchant gem

40. GEMS Payment Processing
ActiveMerchant gem
Shopify

41. GEMS Payment Processing
ActiveMerchant gem
Shopify
50+ Payment Gateways

42. MORE Ruby on Rails
http://rubyonrails.org/
@rubynortheast